Editorial: Funding for research on women’s health is still a fraction of that available for men’s health. This disparity must end
reveals that this analysis is one that not many researchers seem to have embarked on. Applied mathematician Arthur Mirin is among the few to have studied funding trends in women’s-health research in the United States. Mirin came out of retirement to do this after his daughter was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis. Mirin wanted to find out how much NIH funding was available in a field where women make up three-quarters of those affected.
The past 30 years has in many ways changed the landscape for women’s-health research. But in other respects, time has stood still. Mirin has helped to unlock a window to a previously hidden corner of research. Funders need to throw it wide open, do their own studies and establish more funding calls so that other scholars can work with them. At the same time, funders must review how they classify the components of women’s health, because that will speed up data collection.
The NIH and other health-research funders also need to give more consideration to disease burden alongside scientific merit when they assess grant proposals, because that, too, will unlock more funding for under-studied conditions. It must not take another 30 years for studies into women’s health to break free from the margins and into the mainstream.
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